Hi Luke,
ask them if they can get the firmware source for the WIFI module on those gigabit WIFI integrated routers.
that's rather not possible as the spreading was done through a public announcement on a web site with tens of thousands of visitors daily. I can only change the announcement and read comments. I can't somehow "ask" them for an alternative.
Anyway, do you know about any successor of QCA9531 ? I know about decent amount of deployments (matching the size, capabilities, and interfaces of such a "better" SOHO router) where 100Mbit is fine, but I know about way more deployments where 1Gbit is the point which separates the wheat from the chuff.
Keep going,
-- Jan